New Beginnings

I believe we have entered into a "new era" ..... it is a season of forgetting the former things of old because Creator is doing a "new thing" 

∞

No longer is it business as usual .... 

no longer will the things that worked in the former days, years, and decades continue to work in this new day .... just like old wineskins cannot hold the "new wine" ... 

∞

The vast majority of  old wineskins have become too rigid, dry, wrinkled, weak, and brittle ... having lost their ability to be supple, pliable, able to stretch, improvise, and adapt as is necessary ..... 

∞

So pouring in new wine, which is so crisp, fresh, potent, and teaming with effervescent life ..... will, in most all instances, overly challenge and compromise an old wineskin to the degree that it proves itself incapable of being adequate to hold and to store ... therefore the destruction that ensues is  such that the new wine explodes and bursts forth causing precious wine to be wasted ....

∞ 

Its time to "Let Go" and add a " D "

∞

People struggle with the concept of "letting go"

because fear 

has been programmed into every single one of us and  through our D N A since Adam ....

it has a strangle hold upon us

and in such a way that we can't even recognize that it is  F E A R .......

∞

I am two months into 2020 and my vision is enlarging and expanding ....
What about your's .....

Time to re-activate A.L.L. things possible

I most definitely BElieve 

Why "Now" ?

One of the most astounding revelations I had when I began my recovery journey, was reading a book written by Eckhart Tolle called "The Power of Now".

I had never before thought about living in the now present moment such the way he described.  In fact, until I read his book and was really confronted with the premise of living fully present in the moment that you are in, I had no clue that I was NOT doing that.

After reading that book, I suddenly realized that I was never living the NOW but was mostly living in the past or in the future .... I began to understand most of my thinking was in the past, re-living the memories of the past as if they were present ..... or livin in the future, full of fear and anxiety as I contemplated "what would I do if ..... happened"!

Seldom was I able, but for a few minutes maybe, to live completely in the current NOW moment!

I had to come to terms with the truth that I have wasted much of my life by not being present ....


I was always stuck re-living past trauma drama ..... or trying to second-guess the future to avoid any additional trauma drama. When I 'woke up' to the only truth there is ..... that NOW is all I have been given, de-programming was a struggle.

Becoming awake and aware, not meant that I was responsibile to change what always had been for what needed to be. To say being NOW present is easy, is not true ..... it IS worth it, but it is not easy. Yet I began to understand that, to be empowered to live my best life, then I needed to do all that I could to learn and then choose to stay in the present moment. 

Really ......











Consider contemplating and meditating on what it may mean to become present in the now ..... to feel everything now .... to smell the smells; to taste the tastes; to hear the sounds around you; to touch what is; and to see what is before and around you .....

If you would like to try a video on mindfulness and being present in the now, click here .... simply follow along with the video and see what it feels like for you.

If you've never experienced being NOW present, the world changes dramatically when you do. Yet it takes practice to master, because our programming goes so deep.  It is worth the effort, that is for sure.  

*L e t s * d o * t h i s * * * * S h a l l * w e*

Our Past has Purpose

 

Given that it is a 'new year' I am focusing my life upon what is new ..... and releasing what is 'old' and what is past ..... Mostly what I am sharing is just where I am in my journey and what I have learned, and possibly ..... some, most, or none of what I share might resonate to some degree with you ....

It has taken me [far too] many years to realize and understand that my past and every situation in my past  ..... has been a gift to me. [Yes,  you read that correctly.]  My past, despite the beliefs and perceptions I held concerning them,  has really been a gift to myself from my Creator.

The good, the bad, and the down-right ugly ..... has all been purposeful in training me for reigning in THIS life now ..... and to say that "I wish" that I had realized and understood this far sooner in my life, would be an understatement  ..... but I truly did not comprehend.

I spent so many years hating and resenting my life and especially, resenting my past.  I was grumpy and upset and angry ..... mostly at Creator ..... and next with myself.   Can you in any way relate?
 

Early on in my life, I happened to be a 'world class'  blame shifter ..... it was always every one elses' fault; I was SO unaware and incapable of realizing that I had a part in every situation that ocurred in my life.  I lived as a 'victim' continuously ..... never fully comprehending and understanding that "every where I go, there I AM" !!  No matter how hard I tried to work things out, they would implode and beginnings soon became painful endings.f

I spent most of my life trying to be good and do good;  trying to perform and be what I thought everyone else wanted and needed. The harder I tried, the less I seemed to succeed. 

I was a very 'religious' person for along season in my life ..... very accusatory, extremely judgmental, and very condemning.  OH! the damage I did to people I loved and cared for!  So very self-righteous, pride-filled, haughty, arrogant ..... what a hypocrite I became "in Jesus' Name"!  Yet I truly "knew not what I was doing"!

As my life progressed ..... s-l-o-w-l-y I began to 'wake up' .....  s-l-o-w-l-y  I began to become aware .....  and ever so incredibly s-l-o-w-l-y I began to see that many things needed to *C H A N G E* .....

**I T * B E C A M E * T I M E**

*~* 2 0 1 7 *~* A Word for the New Year

*~* 2 0 1 7 *~*

This is a year for 'Perfect Love' that casts out ALL fear to encounter whomsoever will choose to be open to receiving ....

*L O V E*  is the most excellent way and *L O V E*  is a Person who is Personal before it is ever just a 'force' to effect .... 

*L O V E*  is energy that matters ....

 
*L O V E*  is what we were hard-wired to BE however, fear is what we have ended up learning and embracing .....

*L O V E*  is not an 'abstract' philosophy preached with words.... 

*L O V E*  is a demonstrated empowerment with a divinely orchastrated origin that transacts beyond all created measures ..... and transforms and transmutes what is negatively rooted in FEAR.....

This year we each will be directly confronted by *L O V E*

We will be asked to choose to *L O V E* our own selves in the same manner and ability as our Infinite Creator loves us.... 

We can only *L O V E*  others to the degree that we truly
*L O V E* our own selves anyway .... and 

*L O V E*  must be received and accepted by choice and with intention .....

It is our own choice to ACCEPT or REJECT True *L O V E*.... and we alone will reap the consequences of our choice quickly as the illusion of time moves forward .....

NOW there remains: faith, hope, and love ...... and the greatest of these is *L O V E* , the most excellent way!

The Progression of Change

I remember the first time I read Portia Nelson's prose above ..... It revolutionalized my life and caused me to understand some very important truths about the progression of change .....

Each of us have choices that we have made and will make in each moment ..... as oppositional as this may seem, we are no longer 'victims' void of power;

We are empowered as 'volunteers' ..... only, we're so unconscious in our individual lives that we fail to realize that our Creator has granted us co-creator abilities to align our lives according to a divinely ordained plan of the best possible *G O O D* we can choose to imagine .....

This is exactly what I need to do:  *S T O P* choosing to believe the old stories from the past that no longer exists but continues to re-play over and over and over and over in my soul .....  What about you?  Is this true for you?

I have been learning that our minds are like computers. While in utero, we begin recording the environment, perceptions, and experiences that our mother is having  [see "Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D] ..... We have no 'words' for what we are recording, our brain is simply in record mode ..... and this continues up until we are about 7 years old.  We each "need" an operating system for our existence ..... and we obtain this through our well-meaning mother, father, aunts, uncles, grandparents, care-givers, and others who teach us, instruct us, indoctrinate, program, and condition us as to what we are to believe in order to navigate and fulfill our Creator designed purpose and destiny .....

Our words and more so, what we think are *P O W E R F U L*!  I have been learning that when I speak out what I think I am speaking what I believe .....  sometimes I don't even realize I believe what I believe because I have been so unconsciously unaware. 

So much of my recovery has been trying to unearth my beliefs so I can consciously decide if I want to embrace that belief as my own ..... and sadly, many of those beliefs were 'passed down' to me from my early child-hood family of origin .....

I desire to be divinely aligned: spirit, soul, and body .... and prosper and be in health even as my soul prospers because I have worked on healing the wounds and holes in my soul .....

This year ..... there is great hope and possibility for creating my very best life ....  I am choosing to 

How about YOU ??

Basic Truth = Profound BEing

This is truly absolute truth ..... *N O W* is all any of us have.....

Backstory:  Almost five years ago, I was brutally awakened and became astutely aware of the truth about my life ..... My relationship at that time had imploded literally overnight and I found that I had a very short amount of time to find a safe place to move to.   Of course, the timing for this life-changing event could not have been worse and yet I knew everything was exactly as it was meant to be.

A very dear friend was directed by Creator to offer me a place to stay, for which was profoundly grateful.  I found, applied for, and was provided a part-time weekend night shift position almost immediately, which would enable me to have income while continuing my full-time college classes; while I wanted to go right back to school, a 'glitch' provided me nearly five months off school that I utilized well by commiting to and working my own 'recovery' program. 


It was not recovery from illict drugs, alcohol, or any other socially detrimental substance or object .... 

it was recovery from being a socially-acceptable, perfectionistic people-pleaser who believed it was her job to carry the weight and fix the problems of the whole, wide, world !!


My journey in my recovery, to this day,  has been nothing short of amazingly miraculous!  I have changed ..... and in most profound ways ..... and while there are yet those individuals in my life who absolutely refuse to acknowledge these changes ..... I have come to accept that, for now, they cannot acknowledge change in me else they would need to consider change in and for themselves ..... 




I am well aware that ......






and sometimes the season for change is not *Y E T*




So .... the last thing I want to do is relapse back to the dysfunctional ways of people-pleasing and lose the ground I have gained through working my recovery program which has enabled me to begin to discover my real, true, authentic, and genuine ME .....

I no longer wish to live as I have been indoctrinated, programmed, and conditioned to BE .... I want to be fully present, awake, aware, and taking action as to how to best ascertain and apply much needed and necessary change for myself ..... 

I wish to live life based upon *M Y* personal choice and conviction ..... because in the end, I will stand alone and BE responsible before my Creator to give an accounting for all that I have said, done, and did.  Honestly .....

               

*N O  *  F E A R*

Happy New Year ...... One Day at a Time ....

As 2016 began to fade into the transition phase of 2017 .... I began to reflect over the past year at the challenges that were presented.....

I don't know about you, but the past 365 days were really tough, to say the least; and quite heart-breaking to say the most ..... The most painful issues involved relationships with other people ..... people we believed we were called to do community with, people that were part of our family, people who were long-time friends and new friends ..... it was a year of great growth in unlikely ways .....

Today is a significant day dedicated to 'starting over' and 'new beginnings' ..... I have chosen to relinquish everything from the past in order to walk into this year, with a clean slate and an empty pack.  I have hit the 

All things new ..... I am awakened this morning being reminded by Spirit, that my remedy is to accept forgiveness for my part in falling short and missing the mark of LOVE, the most excellent way .....

Reminding myself that there BUT FOR the grace of my Creator, will I or any one else on this globe, go forth, walk out, and walk through into what is new .....

Consider .......





Creator offers us ample opportunities to start over in each moment, every hour, and daily ..... Yet how many of us will 'fixate' on the past and wallow around in the cesspool of regret leading to self-punishment ?

Today ..... things must *S H I F T* and change must come to you and for you .....  but it most definitely will require a choice on your part .....

Consider encountering a Power greater than yourself ..... consider questioning all the beliefs you have ever believed ..... consider being transformed by renewing your mind ..... consider confronting the self-loathing and self-hatred you hold for yourself  you deny ..... is present ..... consider learning and choosing to love yourself .... consider the courage it takes to even contemplate loving yourself and ....

release .... release ..... release ..... release ..... release ..... release .....

NOW

DO 

THIS

*H A P P Y * N E W * L I F E*

NEW ...... all things ..... NOW

Today is December 31st ..... my favorite and most symbolic day of my year! 

This is a day where the whole world in which I live adheres to a holiday celebration and poignant demarcation that what is old  is forcefully overcome by what is NEW .....

This manages to provide me, as well as millions of other people great HOPE .....  for truly,  the old year is passing away so a new year can come forth ..... presenting with it, the opportunity and possibility that  *A N Y - T H I N G*  could, once again, become possible .....

We must simply bid farewell to the negative past with a melodic rendition of  "Auld Lang Syne" as the *S H I F T* commences ....

 This day, was the last day of the year 2*0*1*6 and I am still coming into each now moment of 31 December 10`6 .... A new today will burst forth on the scene as the ultimate RE-SET;  it hearlds potential, possibility, and profitability .....  that every new day dawning here-after will be a brand new opportunity to start again with a fresh, clean slate  .....

And yet, as I type these words of truth, I am confronted by a dissonance within me that forcefully challenges me to deny that this IS truth .....

My early-years inner core programming is attempting to tell me that this idea of 'new beginnings'  is a lie;  and that I will be forever bound to making the same mistakes of my past; forced to carry the weight of every failure; without hope, without release, and without redemption!

Can't you somehow identify with that sentiment?

Obviously, in order to begin anything anew, something else must end ..... else we simply continue the pattern of dysfunction ....

and this is my truest dilemna .....

*T H E * E N D*

So ..... here I am awaiting the proverbial "glass ball to drop" signifying the launch and catapult forward in to the new year, with a new day, and a new beginning ..... this year, I plan on RE-playing New Years Day over and over and over ..... just like Ground Hog Day RE-peated over and over in the movie "What About Bob"  until he learned all the lessons he was meant to learn and became the truest, most authentic genuine self he could become ..... [a great movie if you haven't seen it!!]

I choose to live as NOW present as I possibly can .... choosing to love myself *AS* I am, *HOW* I am, *WHERE* I am, for *WHO* I am now ....

I choose to forgive myself and other people who fail, fall-short, and miss the mark of LOVE, the most excellent way  .... as quickly and as mercifully as I want and desire my Creator to forgive me ....

2 * 0 * 1 * 7  .... comes one moment at a time and my desire is to stay awake, aware, and cognizant in that *NOW* present moment every moment that I can .....

Here's to *B E I N G * T H E  * C H A N G E* and making this new year and every subsequent day of this year: THE BEST!

                                      H*A*P*P*Y

                                       Namaste!

Marginalized People

[I began this blog in spring of 2014, just prior to my June 2014 graduation .... Rather than delete this writing, I decided to post it now in fall of 2016]

I am finishing up a degree in Human Services with a certificate in Chemical Dependency. I have had the privilege to take a myriad of classes on various subjects that have opened my eyes to many realities that I probably, otherwise, would not have bothered exploring.

Knowledge is power; this is true. Knowledge puffs up; this is also truth, as I see so many people with so much knowledge and very little wisdom and revelation as to how to activate and effectually implement the knowledge they hold.

Currently, I am taking a class on pluralism, i.e., diversity.

The emphasis is on cultural competency in order to better assist those I will be working with in the human services and substance use fields. Our classes are always broken down and placed in various groups and given specific topics to investigate upon and report back to the class more specific detail.

One group has presented on African American, one on Latino Americans and my group presented on Native Americans.

To say that being a part of this class is easy would be inaccurate. Being a part of this class and discussing the marginalization of various cultures of people has been heart wrenching for me on multiple levels. To come face to face with the reality of the colonization of American by Europeans back in the days of the Pilgrims and all the history and stories I  learned growing up in early education, has caused me to realize today, that history is a social construct and has not been accurately portrayed in the status quo history books.

One of the most diverse locations within the whole United States is within Washington State zip code 98118 - Federal Way.  Here there are 59 specific ethnic groups residing with numerous languages spoken and cultures being lived out. Amazing!! [In October 2015, my husband and I were graced with the privilege of living for 3 months within this very diverse zip code and I was able to see, first hand, the truth of its diversity .... and while this season was meant to be longer than 3 months, I am grateful for the season we were given]

Reviewing the past; how African American's were treated in our county -- how Latinos are being treated in our country and the ones I am most partial to: Native Americans ... White privilege; white European, Anglo-Saxon men and women who have dehumanized other cultures in order to force assimilation into the "American Way" grieves and sickens me to no end.

Realizing that most are not and do not wish to be educated in this atrocity grieves my heart even more.  Is 'our' way the RIGHT way? Why are we so fearful of other cultures and their people? Why do we pompously and arrogantly insist for immigration purposes that these people coming into our country, that was designed to be a place of refuge, purge their culture and assume our ways of living?

I know that I will not find an answer to my questions. And this is a rabbit hole far too deep for me to traverse at this moment. But my desire is to bring awareness and cause people to awaken to the truth and reality of the privileges white people have been afforded to the demise of those who were here first: Native Americans .... and those who came after: African American's, Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Arabs, even people with disabilities ...

As a woman, I am a marginalized people - I will make 77% of what a white male would make doing the very same job -- A spokesman for the White House recently boasted that women working within the US Government were now making 88% of what their male counterparts were making - REALLY?

Women were only allowed to become their own citizens and vote August 18, 1920. At the founding of our country, women were not entitled to be considered human, but to be their husbands property and have limited rights, never equal with the male gender.

I want to see change - not blame;  I want to see solutions - not more talk;  I want to see people become educated -- and rise up to confront the inequities that are propagated within this country and its diverse populations. For now, I finish and complete my education and learn how I can make a difference on topic of this subject.

In my 'sacred place' I am privileged to sit in some of the most spectacularly beautiful nature ... the smells are alive, the air is fresh and clean, the view is breath-taking, I hear the singing of many birds as the wind kisses my cheeks with intimate love .....

I sit upon my rock and cross my legs and position myself to BE present in my moment where sacred divine and sacred human meet and are One in a way most probably cannot comprehend ...

I hear the still, small voice of my Creator validating, affirming, and celebrating me within my 'jar of clay' ... I hear intimately delicious secrets whispered deep within my soul from the Source of truest Love, which is the most excellent way ... I giggle with childhood glee and inner joy that I am loved so beyond comprehension as I AM ...

In this place of absolute serenity and abandonment of all that is of this realm and dimension, I find my truest, authentic and genuine ME ... I am open and laid bare, not wishing to disguise myself with cloaks of insecurity and shame ... fully open to knowing that HERE and NOW, My Creator became personally Human in the jar of clay known as Yeshua ...

And this Divine Human demonstrated personally the innately revealing express Image of our Creator Papa God ... who became LIKE us because He wanted us to know we are LIKE HIM in all realms and dimensions of being... we are humbly elevated Beings who are co-laborers, co-reigners, co-creators, and co-heirs together with Christ, the sum of ALL spiritual things - seen and unseen, visible and invisible ...

In HIM we each live, move, and have our Being and He holds us together by His Word in which He spoke LET IT BE ... and IT WAS; we were, we are, we will always BE and ever so delicately formed and fashioned together in our mother's wombs to emerge our divinely inspired, brilliantly enabled, amazingly perfectly IMPERFECT you .... and me, in whom resides ALL of His eternal, immortal, never-ending Kingdom come and will be done just as it IS in heaven ....

To sit in this place of sacred Being ... to feel the sun warm me from head to toe; to be nurtured and wrapped in an invisible Presence Who is Creator Papa God .... is intensely indescribable with earthly words ...

I wish and hope above all things that you each will be blessed with the honor and privilege to enter in to your own sacred place of Being with the One whom your heart is wired to love so intimately ... because within THIS place, you will find that you are loved beyond your deepest hopes and wildest dreams ... in THIS place you will know exactly Who you are and why you are here ... in THIS place, there is no fear for this is Perfect Love which casts OUT ALL fear, which is the greatest LIE to detract from Being...

And in this place of utmost profound Being, you will come to know that in HIM you live, and move, and have your Being such as you could never know elsewhere ... while being in a sacred place facilitates the experience of such wonderful Being, you can find this place anywhere, and any time if you will only consider the possibility and probability that THIS exists...

In THIS place you are loved so you become love and from THIS place of Being and Becoming authentically, divinely YOU ... you go forth changed in the deep calling out to deep within the roar of your waterfalls and all of His waves washing over you ...

I DARE you to desire to enter in to this place of eternal otherly reality ... for just because you choose not to believe does not negate the factual truth that THIS place of Being exists ... it is your believing that opens the door to possibility or closes and nails it shut .... please, oh please do not nail it shut ......

Gratitude: To Infinity and Beyond

Gratitude: This morning I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the journey I have been on, and all the amazing [and not so amazing] people that have been part of teaching me lessons ... it is said that, "when you are ready, the Teacher comes" ....

I am so grateful that the heart-break of love gone wrong has not embittered me and tainted my belief in the possibility of true love being real and probable ...

I am so grateful to have learned that everything that pertains to life and godliness resides WITHIN me [and you] and that learning to truly love myself equates to having the capacity to truly love others more than I ever knew was imaginable ... but in a very healthy, functional way.

I am so grateful for the lessons on forgiveness. Knowing that no matter what someone does TO you it is always working FOR you to benefit your life and future ....

I am grateful to be learning that I can change the world by simply changing myself: changing how I believe, changes how I will think, how I will feel, and how I will act ... and more so, it will vibrate as a frequency and resonate outward on to others ....

I am grateful that LOVE IS the most excellent way .... and teaching people to learn to love themselves is an imperative for only then can they become authentic, truly genuine and deeply love others AS they love themselves

This morning I am so beyond grateful for each and every person whoha s ever graced my life with their amazing presence, granting me incredible lessons, and providing me opportunities to learn to choose LOVE vs. fear ... with each passing day I am learning to LOVE, the most excellent way and to cast out fear and its tormenting presence ...

I am grateful to infinity and beyond, most definitely

Are you?

I teach people how to treat me ...

I teach people how to treat me ... and,  what i allow continues ...


Learning to truly love, accept, and forgive myself was key to ending the dysfunctional insanity self-hating and toxic shame had enabled.


My vibration and low frequency would attract those people who reflected and mirrored my own beliefs, thinking, and feelings thereby causing outward drama, trauma, and destruction... of course I would blame it all on others ...


I had no clue people outwardly treated me as i was inwardly believing and unconsciously thinking about and treating my own self ... hating my own being and ashamed of who I was


Now I am awake and aware that what I believe about myself is now drawing those who reflect healthy, positive self-love back to me because I am learning to love, value, respect, accept and quickly forgive myself


Learning to love myself like God loves me is an ongoing progressive journey ... He gives me the love He has for me so I can love me His way


Its crazy awesome wonderful but now I can love, accept, and forgive others way easier and life just gets better and sweeter with each passing day


Love is always a choice ... choose to love yourself today because you deserve it. If you are struggling then ask God to help you, He will


He loves you to infinity and beyond and He wants you to love you too ... Ask Him!!

Co-creating together with God: I Am a mother

Happy Mother's Day .... you are an amazing woman ~ Cheers!

I am extremely blessed to be the mother of four beautiful, amazingly brilliant, and gloriously gifted children.

My first-born was an answer to my selfish prayers: a son. I knew that I was not ready for daughters and I didn't know that I would ever be ready to welcome daughters at that point in my life. God graciously answered and granted me the desire of my heart.

I don't know how to express the depth and magnitude of love one can have for a life that has been carried for nearly ten months within your own body, but it is indescribably glorious! To have had this experience not once, but four times and it has been humbling, to say the least.

When I had my first daughter, I knew that boy or girl no longer mattered ... maybe it never did, because it became about life and the gender that life took was in God's hands ultimately, not mine. It required two, becoming one and from that union, life was!

This morning, as I work through a night shift, I find myself eternally, blissfully, grateful for these four gifts from God, which He allowed me to co-create with and the one I loved, as one made in His divine image. I give utmost thanks and gratitude for these precious lives who are destined to change the world one person at a time, beginning with themselves.

They are miraculously, imperfectly perfect to me in ways no other could possibly know. I stand in awe of each one; their personalities, destinies, gifting's, talents, skills, abilities, and capacity to love so deep and intensely. I know I did four things very right in my life, if nothing else.

Thank you Creator ... for four very distinct and unique gifts from You. I remain, humbled and grateful to infinity and beyond !! To my children: word will never be able to express how deeply and completely I love and care for you ... even though you have 'cut the apron strings' and 'flown the nest', I always determined to raise you to leave home successfully.  That is precisely what you have done.

I place my hands together before my heart and I bow low:  Namaste.

Its all about ∞ L.O.V.E ∞ the most excellent way

∞ To infinity and beyond ∞

I once had a dream ... I was standing in what looked like 'outer-space' and I had these number "8"s dancing all around me ... I mean, they were a dancin' and a rockin' out!  Then, all of  sudden, the stopped ... and immediately shot straight up in the air to about eye level and I heard them all say 'WEEEEEEEEeeee' and then they fell to their side in the sign of infinity and were linked up and circling me.  The dream ended. 

I have a great love for the number "8" ... ח

Jesus' number is "8 8 8", while man's number is "6 6 6".

Eight is the number of 'covenant' and is signified in the Torah, which is the Old Testament Law, by the act of circumcision, which occurred on the 8th day of a new born baby boy's life. It was also the same language used when God set the rainbow in the heaven's as a promise He would never again destroy the earth by flood waters. (Genesis 17:10). 

This verse in Genesis, "sums to the number 800 which is also the value of the Greek words "Lord" and "faith" as well as the value of the final letter of the Greek alphabet "Omega". It is said that this is the essence of faith - trusting in the Lord who will see us through to the very end, it lifts us above our present state to behold our Shepherd who is Lord of all".

Romans 2:28 states: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men but of God".

In Colossians 2:11 it reads:  "In whom also you are circumcised  with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; Buried with Him in baptism, wherein you also are raised with him through the faith in the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the un-circumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to the cross".

In the New Testament, the sign of covenant is in Baptism .. "buried with him in baptism into his death"

Reading more about Noah's Ark and how "8" souls were saved (I Peter 3:18) 

In view of the Resurrection, John 20:24

At the level of Divinity, the number eight 

alludes to the absolute Infinity of G-d. ...

Whereas at the level of Souls, circumcision gives one the power to overcome obstacles, at this level of awareness G-d's true Infinity links one, in covenant, to His very Essence.

When linked to Infinity, overcoming obstacles, even death, the secret of resurrection, becomes self-evident and "second nature." 

When absolutely connected to the Infinite One, there can in truth be no obstacle.

ח

The Eighth Day is the first day of the new week, precisely as the Octave is the Eight Note that begins the musical cycle anew on a higher level.


The Octave 


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Look Up ---> Your Redemption Draws Nigh

So much has transpired since my initial posting ... We sit today, on the precipice of SHIFT ... change unlike anything we have ever known or maybe ever imagined. I have experienced the love of people growing frigidly cold, distant and even hostile. It is grievous to me and yet, it has long been predicted in God's word.

         Matthew 24:11-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
                11 And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.
                12 And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,
                13 But he who endures to the end will be saved. I do not believe it is God's desire, nor His heart that ANY perish.

          2 Peter 3:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
              The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.

 When Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, He died WITH US and took FOR US the punishment of our sins. We received HIS Righteousness, while He took our punishment & the wrath of God upon sin. We died together with him, but escaped the punishment we deserved for our sins because Jesus willingly took our place.

        Romans 6:8
             Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him...

        Romans 5:7-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
             7 Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die.
             8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
             9 Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ’s blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God.

         Galatians 2:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
            18 For if I [or any others who have taught that the observance of the Law of Moses is not essential to being justified by God should now by word or practice teach or intimate that it is essential to] build up again what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor.
            19 For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ’s death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law’s demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God.
            20 I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

          Colossians 2:20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
               If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?—such as]

The amazing thing about grace is that every human beings sins WERE forgiven them when Jesus shed His blood and gave his life willing on the cross 2,000 years ago. The GOOD NEWS is that mercy, grace, redemption & salvation belong to every human being who will CHOOSE to receive the gift.

         Romans 5:14-16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
            14 Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse, the former destructive, the Latter saving].
            15 But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.
            16 Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man’s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness).

Right now, we are coming up on Rosh Ha Shannah, the "head of the year' or Jewish New Year and the day to sound the trumpets. It begins at sundown, Sunday, September 16, 2012 through sundown Tuesday, September 18, 2012. This begins the "Days of Awe" also called The Days of Repentance culminating 10 days later in YOM KIPPUR, the Day of Atonement.

It seems war is inevitable between Israel and many countries in the Middle East ... but provoking fear is NOT my intent.

Inciting the reality of the need for Jesus is ...

God is good... Jesus is the representative of God Who came in the flesh as the sacrifice pleasing to God for our sins. He took it all upon Himself so we could have relationship with God through Jesus Christ ....

God is love ...

God is GOOD ... and love is the most excellent way.

Jesus loves us .... He made the way for us to come before God accepted & approved. Ask Him to be real to you, He will.

Grace 2 Be ..... Its Your Journey!

I have been an 'official' believer in Jesus Christ since I was 12 years old and prayed a prayer in an AOG Sunday school class room.

In all honesty, my first persecution of being a believer was when I incurred punishment from my father for literally 'standing on the Word' ... I was maybe 3 years old! My dad was appalled that I, a mere 3 year old, would be so highly DISRESPECTFUL of the Bible... so, he 'tanned my hide' a good one, place the Bible up on the highest shelf in the closet and ordered me to never again 'touch it'.

The next morning, as my father sat reading the morning paper and drinking his coffee in the kitchen, he heard me having a conversation with myself in front of the mirror attached to a door in the hallway. He recounted to me, that he peeked around the corner to see 'me' having a conversation with my reflection that went something like this:

"Daddy told you not to touch that book!" "I know he did but I'm gonna touch that book!" ... "Oh no your not!" ... "Oh yes I am!" And after a few back and forth conversations with my reflection, I determined I was going to 'touch that book' knowing full well that I was directed NOT too and that I would be setting myself up for further punishment, meaning another harsh spanking.

Well... I won and found a chair to my father's delight, and pushed it to the closet and under the shelf where I promptly climbed up and smugly with pleasure, TOUCHED the forbidden book and announced accordingly to MYSELF that" "There, I touched it."

All a matter of principle I am certain. I defied my earthly father in a big way but I believe that my Heavenly Father and my true Creator was quite thrilled with my determination and rebellion to earthly rule in favor of a more spiritual principle.

I am certain the God my Heavenly Father would NEVER mind me standing on the word.. and I do recall in later years, singing a song about "Standing on the promises of God" which is what that whole book represents.

Needless to say, my earthly father did not punish me for my defiance but rather, laughed quietly at his daughters determined need to defy him in sheer rebellion.

Ironically, my parents felt that it was not important to instill any type of spiritual beliefs in me. My mother's mother, who was my caregiver, read me the Bible and I remember growing up with this old book of bible stories in black and white pictures... NOTHING of which any parent would read to their 3 year old today.

A neighbor lady offered to take me to the Lutheran Sunday school and vacation bible school when I was 3-5. I think I always knew in my heart that God was real and I knew that NOTHING would stop me from 'standing on his Word' if I was so inclined.

Fast forward to today. I am more certain than ever that God is real, that He sent Jesus as His personal representative, into this world to live as one of us so he could honor His Father with obedience and stand in our stead, taking all our 'sins' and ugly behaviors upon Himself in order to give up his life & shed his blood so that the permanent sacrifice would be made on our behalf. What we deserved in the way of punishment, He willingly took upon Himself so that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

It is truly difficult to understand from a human perspective which is why 'spiritual things are spiritually discerned'. The revelation & enlightenment must come from the Originator of Creation producing the 'ah-ha' moment of understanding.

Religion has done nothing for me except put me into bondage to trying to 'do good & be good' ... and no matter how hard I tried to do and be good, I failed. I couldn't perform well enough to save my own life... so, I quit.

I quit performing and trying to be good and do good. I decided to just accept the fact that Jesus did something for me that needed to be done and IT WAS ENOUGH! He is the One who initiated all that I needed, which was HIM.

While I greatly desire to please Him because I love Him... I know that my own flesh falls short so often. I can't work enough to please Him, so my only option is now to rely upon GRACE to be.

Grace is unmerited favor. Grace means I got Jesus when I, in myself, did NOTHING to deserve Him. Mercy was extended to me that sent the message: PARDONED ... because I want to stand in your place and have justice enacted upon ME, Jesus.

How I pray that people who read this will understand by the Spirit of Truth that Jesus Who is Truth, loves you right where you are, exactly how you are, for who you are with no judgment, accusation or condemnation!

He just loves without strings... without requiring anything from you except that you BELIEVE in Him and know "HE has you covered" by His holy blood and all the wrong you've done, did today and will do tomorrow... is washed away by the power that is in the blood He shed on the cross of Calvary.

Father, I pray that for whomever finds this and reads this, that Your Spirit will open their eyes and their ears to see and hear Your Voice. I pray that YOUR Kingdom come and YOUR will be done in this life, upon this earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. I pray that you baptize them in Your LOVE: the pure, holy, unconditional, overwhelming LOVE OF GOD shed abroad in their heart now by Christ Jesus. Cause Jesus to become fully alive and real to them in this moment. Send angels to minister to them, deliver them from all sin, addictions, bondage, fear, rebellion & release in them Your Life. I pray for the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation of Jesus Christ & a hunger and thirst for righteousness. Thank you.

Jesus loves us beyond any love we have ever known. He is FOR US and grants us GRACE to BE .... its YOUR journey with Jesus. Enjoy!